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Tag: U.S. President

Robert Higgs | Wednesday March 16, 2016 at 3:08 PM PST | Comments Off on Why the Worst Get on Top: Comparative Advantage

For anyone familiar with F. A. Hayek’s famous 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, the present electoral campaigning to gain the Democratic and Republican nominations as the party’s presidential candidate cannot help but call to mind Hayek’s chapter, “Why the Worst Get on Top.” As matters now stand, the most likely candidates will be,...Read More »

Lawrence J. McQuillan | Friday March 4, 2016 at 4:03 PM PST | Comments Off on Why Bernie Sanders Is Morally Unfit to Be President

Bernie Sanders is proud to be a socialist. In July 2015, he told The Nation: “Do they think I’m afraid of the word? I’m not afraid of the word.” As far back as 1989, Sanders said: “I think there has been too much of a reluctance on the part of progressives and radicals to...Read More »

Gary Galles | Monday February 8, 2016 at 2:45 PM PST | Comments Off on Trumping Washington Won’t Make America Great Again

Americans have begun voting in the process to select the 44th person to succeed George Washington as President. Unfortunately, missing from the process have been the principles that animated Washington as America’s “indispensable man,” in historian Forrest MacDonald’s words. The character that made him “first in war, first in peace, and first in the...Read More »